 Stanford's 'autonomous' helicopters teach themselves to fly September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers. ... | |
 Machines might talk with humans by putting themselves in our shoes September 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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While robots can do some remarkable things, they don't yet possess the gift of gab. Since the 1970s, researchers have been trying to develop a speech-based human-machine interface, but improvements are gradual, ... | |
 94 percent of spam-advertised online scams are hosted on individual Web servers August 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Computer scientists from UC San Diego have found striking differences between the infrastructure used to distribute spam and the infrastructure used to host the online scams advertised in these unwanted email ... | |
Using supercomputers to make safer nuclear reactors November 01, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is leading a $3 million research project that will pair two of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to boost the safety and reliability of next-generation nuclear power reactors. | |
 Virtual world is sign of future for scientists, engineers July 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Purdue University is operating a virtual environment that enables scientists and engineers to interpret raw data collected with powerful instruments called dynamic atomic force microscopes. | |
 Stanford site advances science of turning 2-D images into 3-D models January 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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An artist might spend weeks fretting over questions of depth, scale and perspective in a landscape painting, but once it is done, what's left is a two-dimensional image with a fixed point of view. But the ... | |
Researchers devise new method for protecting private data April 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Companies and organizations that keep sensitive personal information on millions of Americans have become attractive targets for hackers in recent years, resulting in billions of dollars in losses for U.S. businesses and ... | |
 Model helps computers sort data more like humans August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans have a natural tendency to find order in sets of information, a skill that has proven difficult to replicate in computers. Faced with a large set of data, computers don't know where ... | |
 Maryland Professor Creates Desktop Supercomputer June 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 158 vote(s)
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A prototype of what may be the next generation of personal computers has been developed by researchers in the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering. Capable of computing speeds 100 ... | |
 Computer scientists devise a 'P4P' system for efficient Internet usage May 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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A Yale research team has engineered a system with the potential for making the Internet work more efficiently, in which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software providers can work ... | |
We can have ‘win-win’ on security vs. privacy March 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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People think there has to be a choice between privacy and security; that increased security means more collection and processing of personal private information. However, in a challenging report to be published on Monday ... | |
Software That Grades Handwritten Essays May Boost Comprehension, Too January 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Computer scientists in the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have been working with their colleagues in UB's Graduate School of Education to develop a computational tool that not only dramatically ... | |
Simulations means 'smarter traffic decisions' June 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Kyoto University and IBM's Tokyo Research Laboratory have developed a system that can simulate urban transport situations encompassing millions of individual vehicles in complex traffic interactions. A simulation can predict, ... | |
Networks of the Future: Extending Our Senses into the Physical World August 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The picture of a future with wireless sensor networks-webs of sensory devices that function without a central infrastructure--is quickly coming into sharper focus through the work of Los Alamos National Laboratory ... | |
 Gamers use PS3s to do biomedical research November 18, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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It's kind of like SETI@home, but with PS3s instead of PCs and molecules instead of aliens. In the latest volunteer scientist program, called PS3GRID, anyone who owns a Sony PlayStation3 can donate their system´s ... | |
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